Can I copy values from a swimlane to an epic?

Question

Hi,

At our organization we have all kinds of automation rules. These rule populate values to avoid manual work.

Now we want to populate one date field with a value which is part of the swimming lanes. It's the description field.

Do you know if we can populate the field with the value from the description in an automation rule?

E.g. with a code like this: {{triggerissue.key}} Maybe there's something like {{swimlane.description}}

Thanks!

Jeroen Haesen_sueva2 · Answer

Thanks Bill.

Indeed the end date is changing 2 times a month, that's why we want to have it automated. We already are using the Fix Version, but our company has there the quarters mentioned and not a specific date. Unfortunately we cannot change that for the whole company.

Anyway, I will have a look at the link you sent me and many thanks for your help!

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Thanks for that information, and...

If your "release end date" is in a swim lane name / description, isn't that likely to need changing every time there is a new release?

Have you instead considered using the Releases feature of your Jira project, and assigning issues to a Fix Version?  That might eliminate most of the work.  Please look here to learn about that feature: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/enable-releases-and-versions/

If that will not work, there is no public, REST API to get at the swim lane data.  There is an old function, and an Atlassian team member seems to discourage using it: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/REST-API-for-Board-Swimlane-Modifications/qaq-p/1288929  If you wanted to try it, an automation rule could be used to get the information to set in an issue's custom field.

Jeroen Haesen_sueva2 · Answer

Hi @Bill Sheboy

We have a bit of not straight forward process. :)  Indeed, the board shows the issues. The issue have several fields which need to be populated. Some fields have specific values, some fields have values which can be populated automatically. We are trying to automate as much as possible. One of the fields is the end date. This is not the sprint end date, but a release end date. This is not a value mentioned somewhere else, except on the swimming lanes. There the date is mentioned in a field.

What we are trying to achieve is to get that value from the swimming lanes to be populated in the end date field automatically.

I hope it's a bit more clear now.

Thanks for your help.